affair. One should also call in person within two weeks of
any entertainment to which one has been asked, especially if one has
attended.

One need repay formal calls, where no invitation to any social
occasion has been received, only once a year. Even in this case, cards
may be sent by mail. In the country it is usual to go in person,
though one does not ask if the lady of the house is at home.

Calls should be made upon the "At Home" day, if one is engraved upon
the card. If a person is ill, a near relative, or intimate friend, may
leave a card for her at the house of the friend upon whom she wished
to call.

Society holds young people who are free to attend parties and
entertainments under stern obligation to pay their social calls.
Young mothers, professional women, students, invalids, and
semi-invalids are not expected to conform rigidly to the same rules.
If a young woman can go to a party to amuse herself, she must call
afterwards to acknowledge the courtesy of the invitation.

If a mother cannot call in person, her daughter or some one else may
pay the necessary calls in her stead. Or she may invite the people
whom she would otherwise call on, to an afternoon tea, which is more
of a compliment than a call.

In calling at a house, should the door be opened by a member of the
family, the caller does not present her card to the lady or gentleman,
but steps in, asking for the person whom she wants to see. She may
leave her card unobtrusively on the table when she goes out.

If a maid opens the door, the card is handed to her and received on a
small tray. No well-trained maid ever extends her hand to receive a
visiting card.

If a caller wishes to be very formal, she leaves a card for every lady
in the family on whom she wishes to call.

In the beginning of the season a wife always leaves her husband's card
with her own, and she usually does this also when making a call at the
close of the season.

An unmarried woman calling on a married friend leaves only one card.
If the friend has daughters or is entertaining a guest, a card may be
left for each.

A lady always rises to receive a visitor.

It takes good judgment to know when to go, but it should be cultivated
and practised. Lingering in taking one's leave is a great weariness,
to one's hostess if not to one's self.

After a birth calls are made upon the mother after the child is a
month old.

After a death the friends of the family should call in